Nicole Jumper
The desire to change one’s body image is very prevalent in today’s society; and in most cases what people want to change is their weight. Companies who market diet programs and miracle diet drugs are very much aware of this commonality among consumers and take advantage of the susceptible nature of those who want to lose the weight and lose it fast. Among the multitude of pills, programs and promises that are offered as cures to the unhappiness of being fat, one new concept has emerged that stretches the boundaries of logic: the catabolic diet.
WHAT IS THE CATABOLIC DIET?
The catabolic diet is based on the concept that a person can eat “catabolic” foods that actually have a negative calorie effect.
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In order to digest food, your body must use several organs like muscles, intestines, digestive juices, blood cells, liver, pancreas, etc. By using these organs during the digestive process, your body burns calories. Eating a 300-calorie piece of cake may only require fifty calories to be lost in the digestive process, therefore you retain 250 calories. But, if you were to eat a twenty-five calorie catabolic food, it may take 100 calories to digest it, thus you have lost 75 calories from your fat deposit. After this “factual information” the site gives the necessary testimonial. Apparently while on the catabolic diet, “ . . .one lady went from 395 pounds to 156 pounds in a matter of months. The site also claims that this miraculous weight loss of 239 pounds is documented in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But wait, what about the list of catabolic foods? Well, to be privy to that information, one must pay $23.70 for the diet program book. Looking for something a little more informative on the catabolic diet, like the history of the diet and its creator? If you go to http://www.rarebooks.net/beck.cataboli.htm, you will come across a thirteen page detailed explanation of the diet from it’s debut in 1935 to the present. According to this website, the catabolic diet was created by Dr. Victor Lindlahr, who started a local radio program in Chicago about health and nutrition. It was on this radio station that
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The diet is similar to one of the current diets called the Atkins diet it is similar in the sense of eating low carbohydrates per day. According to the blog Drink your Carbs, the diet consists of eating sixty grams or less of carbohydrates, eliminating all sugars and starches, also includes the alcohol. A sample of what a day of meals would be in as follows: For breakfast they have cantaloupe, two slices of bacon, and two poached scrambled eggs with tea or coffee; For lunch there’s two glasses of wine or one dry martini, or whiskey and soda, broiled fish, steak, or roasted chicken, green beans, salad, and coffee or tea; For dinner, martinis, shrimp cocktail, steak, pork, lamb, or chicken, low starch vegetables, avocado, cheese, and coffee or tea (Cameron, 2013). That diet cannot be healthy.
Here is the basic nature of the diet including the reasoning for how it works.
The philosophy is that by restricting carb intake, the cravings for carbs will subside, resulting in a decline in overall food consumption and weight loss.
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